Detecting plants on railway embankment.

Nyberg, Roger; Gupta, Naren K; Yella, Siril; Dougherty, Mark

doi:10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003

Detecting plants on railway embankment.

Nyberg, Roger; Gupta, Naren K; Yella, Siril; Dougherty, Mark

Authors

Roger Nyberg

Naren K Gupta

Siril Yella

Mark Dougherty

Abstract

This paper investigates problems concerning vegetation along railways and proposes automatic means of detecting
ground vegetation. Digital images of railway embankments have been acquired and used for the purpose. The current
work mainly proposes two algorithms to be able to achieve automation. Initially a vegetation detection algorithm has
been investigated for the purpose of detecting vegetation. Further a rail detection algorithm that is capable of identifying
the rails and eventually the valid sampling area has been investigated. Results achieved in the current work report satisfactory
(qualitative) detection rates

Citation

Nyberg, R., Gupta, N. K., Yella, S., & Dougherty, M. (2013). Detecting plants on railway embankment. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 6, 8-12. https://doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	2013
Deposit Date	Jul 28, 2014
Publicly Available Date	Jul 28, 2014
Print ISSN	1945-3116
Electronic ISSN	1945-3124
Publisher	Scientific Research Publishing
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	6
Pages	8-12
DOI	https://doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003
Keywords	Railway Engineering; Railway Embankments; Condition Monitoring; Image Processing; Color Segmentation; Railway Maintenance; Vegetation Detection
Public URL	http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6965
Publisher URL	http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jsea.2013.63b003